Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   In the year 1968 dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70  

Jun 05   Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68 on this day in history.  

Jun 05   On this day in history sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day  

Jun 05   In the year 1968 uS Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles  

Jun 06   In the year 1968 franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies  

Jun 06   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.  

Jun 07   In the year 1968 dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60  

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination in the year 1968.  

Jun 08   In the year 1968 gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"  

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport in the year 1968.  

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted on this day in history.  

Jun 08   Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" on this day in history.  

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Jun 12   On this day in history fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76  

Jun 14   In the year 1968 karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51  

Jun 15   John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral on this day in history.  

Jun 15   In the year 1968 samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88  

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing in the year 1968.  

Jun 19   In the year 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign  

Jun 20   Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds on this day in history.  

Jun 21   In the year 1968 ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91  

Jun 21   In the year 1968 supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns  

Jun 24   Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner in the year 1968.  

Jun 24   On this day in history deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion  

Jun 24   Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.  

Jun 24   On this day in history resurrection City closed  

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 on this day in history.  

Jun 26   In the year 1968 iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US  

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague on this day in history.  

Jun 27   Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies on this day in history.  

Jun 28   In the year 1968 daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers  

Jun 29   On this day in history kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66  

Jun 30   On this day in history gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections  

Jun 30   John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.  

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.  

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.